This speech was delivered by Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of MintPress News, in Minneapolis, MN on Sept. 10, 2014. Ms. Muhawesh was invited by peace advocacy group Military Against Military Madness to bring attention to how the media manipulates conflict narratives to drive public support for war and how alternative voices and independent journalism are smeared to discredit them to ensure control over US foreign policy narratives.

This is an excellent documentary into the breakup of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Empire comes at a huge human cost; that of the millions whose futures are destroyed and generations that are torn apart.

Terrible injustice was handed out by the west in the guise of democracy, freedom and justice. While most of us might be aware many are not.

We would urge our Muslim readers to watch this for its own merit and understand how the Muslim world fits in to the larger scheme of things. By the same token, conscious Americans & Europeans should also be horrified that this is done in their name.